Town of East Hampton
Planting Design & Installation in East Hampton, NY
Planting installation in East Hampton runs about $3–15 per square foot for a bed, $25–230 per shrub and $8–25 per perennial (national 2026 ranges; no Long Island figure exists), with a mature screening evergreen the real cost driver at $2,400–12,000+ depending on size. We put East Hampton homeowners in touch with one landscape pro who installs in the town regularly and chooses species for the actual site, not a generic list.
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Planting in East Hampton means choosing species and specimens for the actual site, not a catalog picture: exposure, deer pressure and soil decide what survives here more than what looks good on delivery day. We put East Hampton homeowners in touch with one landscape pro who installs in the town regularly and prices the plant list honestly before it is ordered.
Planting design in East Hampton: what's different here
Shingle-style village properties with gardens behind privet hedges, oceanfront and pondfront estates south of the highway with the master-planned grounds and mature screening that scale calls for, and older houses in Springs and Northwest Woods with foundation plantings and hedges that have grown in over decades.
East Hampton runs from salt-exposed ground near the water to sheltered inland lots, so the plant list for one part of town is often wrong for another; the site, not the town name, sets the palette.
A 2006 town-specific study put the deer population at roughly 51 per square mile on average, 1.3 to 2.6 times the state's own recommended sustainable ceiling, alongside a documented rise in deer-vehicle collisions from 25 in 2000 to 108 in 2011 — the clearest sourced case, anywhere in the Hamptons, for why deer pressure shapes what gets planted here. East Hampton Town's deer-fence code (§255-11-38) requires a permit and Architectural Review Board approval above 4 ft in a front yard or 6 ft anywhere, with default height caps of 6 ft (street-facing) and 8 ft (elsewhere) — the ARB can authorize up to 10 ft for "exceptional circumstances," which explicitly includes property damage from animals.
Permits in East Hampton run through the Town of East Hampton Planning Department (site plans, the Water Recharge Overlay District) and Architectural Review Board (fences, including deer fences); Village of East Hampton Building Department inside the village; the landscape pro we put you in touch with handles the filing where one is required.
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Tell us about the job once. One licensed, insured landscape pro who works East Hampton and handles planting design regularly contacts you within 1 business day. Free for homeowners, no spam calls.
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Planting design questions
What plants are actually deer-resistant in the Hamptons?
Rutgers Cooperative Extension rates plants on a four-tier scale from A (rarely damaged) to D (frequently severely damaged); sample A-rated plants include American holly, barberry, bayberry, bleeding heart and blue fescue. The important caveat: in winter, deer eat species they normally avoid entirely, explicitly including privet, arborvitae, euonymus and boxwood — the most common hedge and screening plants in the Hamptons. "Deer-resistant" means less preferred, not immune, and a hard winter with enough deer pressure will test even an A-rated planting list.
How does Bridgehampton Gardens work, and what does it cost me?
It costs homeowners nothing. You tell us, in about sixty seconds, whether you need design (a master plan or a planting design) or care (maintenance, cleanup, irrigation, deer fencing) — that first answer is the whole funnel. We put you in touch with one licensed, insured landscape pro who works your town and does that kind of work, and they call you within one business day. We are a Hamptons-only referral service, not a landscape architecture, design or maintenance company, and we are not connected to any garden, nursery or landscaper of a similar name. Participating pros pay us a referral fee.
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